Matthias Hermann (music teacher)

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Matthias Hermann (* 1960 in Ludwigsburg ) is a German musicologist and teacher, conductor and composer.

Hermann studied school music (majoring in organ with Jon Laukvik ), German and conducting. He is a student of Helmut Lachenmann , whose writings he translated into Polish. Since 1987 he has been teaching at the State University for Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart , since 1991 as a professor. In 2007 he became Vice Rector of the university. Since 1998 he has also led central teacher training courses on behalf of the Polish Ministry of Culture. He taught as a visiting professor at the Jagiellonian University and the Academy of Music in Cracow, Warsaw, Katowice, Poznan, Lodz, Kiev and Moscow and as a lecturer at various summer courses in New Music.

In his doctoral thesis "Compositional Methods in Music between 1975 and 2003" (2013) Hermann dealt with the composers Pierre Boulez , Morton Feldman , Manuel Hidalgo , György Kurtág , Helmut Lachenmann and Luigi Nono . He is also the author of books on the analysis of new music and on musical forms in the baroque and classical periods.

As a guest conductor, Hermann has performed at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Frankfurt Opera , with the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin , the Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart , the Radio Symphony Orchestra Spain , the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI Torino , the Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto , the radio -Symphonieorchester Wien , the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg , the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra , the Taipei National Symphony Orchestra , the SWR Vocal Ensemble and the university orchestras in Stockholm and Beijing. Hermann composed commissioned works for festivals and ensembles as well as theatrical music.

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